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the sugar should be ascertained. Each man 

 ate each day a quarter of a pound of oatmeal, 

 a quarter of a pound of cheese, three-quarters 

 of a pound of bread, three ounces of butter, 

 two ounces of raspberries, one pint of milk, 

 and two eggs. On the days when the sugar 

 was eaten, — the other foods being identical in 

 each case,— each man was given five ounces 

 of granulated sugar testing ninety-nine and 

 two-tenths per cent pure. 



The amount of waste was accurately deter- 

 mined so that the precise food values were 

 ascertained. It was shown in the tests that 

 there was absolutely no digestive influence of 

 the sugar upon the other foods ; that there 

 was no waste in the sugar to amount to any- 

 thing, ninety-eight and nine-tenths of the 

 total energy of the sugar being available for 

 the body ; that the amount of the protein 

 material, — the strength-producing portions of 

 the food — retained in the body was greater 

 when the sugar was fed, because the sugar 

 helped provide the fuel for the body and thus 

 there was less demand made upon the protein 

 material from the other foods. It was clearly 

 demonstrated in the tests that sugar is too 



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